FDA Guidance: Safe Use of Peanut-Derived Ingredients

WASHINGTONThe U.S. Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (CFSAN) yesterday issued a Guidance for Industry advising manufacturers that peanuts and peanut-derived products used as food ingredients pose a risk of Salmonella contamination, and recommending measures that manufacturers can take to address that risk for peanut derived products received from their ingredient suppliers and for the products they themselves produce.

CFSAN also issued a companion bulletin to operators of food-service establishments and retail food stores that offer food products containing peanuts and peanut-derived ingredients.

The bulletin asks retail and food service operations to work with their suppliers to ensure that all peanut-derived products used as ingredients or sold as food have been manufactured and packed in accordance with current good manufacturing practice requirements. Retail and food-service operations should take steps to ensure that their suppliers use production processes that have been demonstrated to adequately reduce the presence of Salmonella and should work with their suppliers to ensure that all peanut-derived products used as ingredients or sold as food are not subject to an on-going product recall.